A look at American ranches, from century-old working ranches to rugged new compounds designed for life in the West.

Who were the black cowboys? They were drovers, foremen, fiddlers, cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, and singers. They worked as wranglers, riders, ropers, bu

From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known to residents a

Viewers of films and television shows might imagine the dude ranch as something not quite legitimate, a place where city dwellers pretend to be cowboys in amusi